Sep 21, 2026 · 52 min · 11 segments
In this episode of Intentional Oversharing, Taj M. Smith and Neely dive deep into burnout. They explore their respective burnout journeys, touching on topics like therapy, boundaries, grief, and the…
Taj M. SmithGuest
Neely KimeyHost
We were planning on talking about burnout today from a particular lens that I'm excited to explore.
Did you want to share a bit about kind of like your thoughts on what we want to dig into with burnout today?
I said something along the lines of burnout and neurodivergence and how we keep ourselves well in... particularly difficult moments, like particularly difficult political moments, like the one we're in right now.
How do we even think about prevention when so many of us are experiencing burnout or we're at different levels of it? Like, Especially right now.
How do we think outside of what's happening right now? Everything that's happening right now is affecting everything in our lives.
This is something I've been wanting to bring up more in general, but I feel like over the last few years, I've been very fortunate to have access to lots of therapy that actually works and helps me process trauma and those kinds of things.
And I think that all of those years of working with the right therapist and doing the therapies that actually helped me have kind of prepared me to be in this like interesting space of I kind of feel like I can handle what's happening.
And a lot of people I'm assuming, I can only assume comparing it to my own experiences and how much things have changed for me over the last few years, aren't handling it.
So I'm trying to be this like, I don't know, like a light, a light for people or like a beacon or like maybe things don't have to be completely awful while they're completely awful but it's making me feel like I have the tools to hold space for people in a way that not everybody's as fortunate to have so it's just an interesting thing to explore yeah
I mean it's amazing how like working with the right person can like help you access that kind of capacity that you need to be able to like handle weather like weather the storms
Yeah, I think like conversation about prevention right now, especially like looks a lot different than it did like, you know, two years ago.
And conversation about prevention right now, like in 2026 looks different than it did in 2025.
Mostly because I think like it's the focus isn't so much on prevention as much as it is as management.
Because I think like right now, especially if you're someone who is politically active, like I work with change makers and I work with people who are like most of the people I work with are affected by politics in some way.
which, you know, that's a whole other conversation about who is affected by politics.
We were planning on talking about burnout today from a particular lens that I'm excited to explore.
Did you want to share a bit about kind of like your thoughts on what we want to dig into with burnout today?
I said something along the lines of burnout and neurodivergence and how we keep ourselves well in... particularly difficult moments, like particularly difficult political moments, like the one we're in right now.
How do we even think about prevention when so many of us are experiencing burnout or we're at different levels of it? Like, Especially right now.
How do we think outside of what's happening right now? Everything that's happening right now is affecting everything in our lives.
This is something I've been wanting to bring up more in general, but I feel like over the last few years, I've been very fortunate to have access to lots of therapy that actually works and helps me process trauma and those kinds of things.
And I think that all of those years of working with the right therapist and doing the therapies that actually helped me have kind of prepared me to be in this like interesting space of I kind of feel like I can handle what's happening.
And a lot of people I'm assuming, I can only assume comparing it to my own experiences and how much things have changed for me over the last few years, aren't handling it.
So I'm trying to be this like, I don't know, like a light, a light for people or like a beacon or like maybe things don't have to be completely awful while they're completely awful but it's making me feel like I have the tools to hold space for people in a way that not everybody's as fortunate to have so it's just an interesting thing to explore yeah
I mean it's amazing how like working with the right person can like help you access that kind of capacity that you need to be able to like handle weather like weather the storms
Yeah, I think like conversation about prevention right now, especially like looks a lot different than it did like, you know, two years ago.
And conversation about prevention right now, like in 2026 looks different than it did in 2025.
Mostly because I think like it's the focus isn't so much on prevention as much as it is as management.
Because I think like right now, especially if you're someone who is politically active, like I work with change makers and I work with people who are like most of the people I work with are affected by politics in some way.
which, you know, that's a whole other conversation about who is affected by politics.
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